{"id":2611,"date":"2007-04-18T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianwarnock.com\/2007\/04\/the-atonement-wrong-ideas-about-the-cross\/"},"modified":"2018-03-27T09:21:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T08:21:00","slug":"the-atonement-wrong-ideas-about-the-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2007\/04\/the-atonement-wrong-ideas-about-the-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"The Atonement – Wrong Ideas About the Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

In the last post in this series on the atonement, we raised the question \u2014 Is it right to say God punished Jesus?<\/a> We will return to that issue, but today we will look at some of the wrong theories of what essentially happened at the cross.<\/p>\n

This series is based on teaching I first gave at Jubilee Church. If you want a sneak preview of what is coming, you can download the audio<\/a> (you may need to right click and save to your PC) or listen online here:<\/p>\n

There are a number of theories about the cross which, whilst having some grain of truth in them, fail to explain the key thing that happened. Some of these are as follows:<\/p>\n

WAS THE CROSS MERELY . . .<\/span><\/strong> <\/p>\n